* ActorAllusion: Jackie and Max have a conversation about getting old and growing tired. Their actors, Creator/PamGrier and Robert Forster, had been big stars in the seventies but their stars had waned by the time they took this movie. Ironically, this movie revitalized their careers.

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* ActorAllusion: ActorAllusion: ** Jackie and Max have a conversation about getting old and growing tired. Their actors, Creator/PamGrier and Robert Forster, had been big stars in the seventies but their stars had waned by the time they took this movie. Ironically, this movie revitalized their careers.

* RaceLift: Jackie Brown was white in the book.* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/SylvesterStallone originally wanted to play Louis, while Creator/JohnTravolta was the first choice to play Ray Nicollete.

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* RaceLift: Jackie Brown was white in the book.* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen: ** Creator/SylvesterStallone originally wanted to play Louis, while Creator/JohnTravolta was the first choice to play Ray Nicollete.

** During the sequence where Ordell is watching TV with Louis, the phone rings and he goes to the kitchen. In the fridge there's a picture of Creator/SamuelLJackson naked inside a bath tub. This pic is from his role in ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}.

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** During the sequence where Ordell is watching TV with Louis, the phone rings and he goes to the kitchen. In the fridge there's a picture of Creator/SamuelLJackson naked inside a bath tub. This pic is from his role in ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}.''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''.

* ActorAllusion: Jackie and Max have a conversation about getting old and growing tired. Their actors, Pam Grier and Robert Forster, had been big stars in the seventies but their stars had waned by the time they took this movie. Ironically, this movie revitalized their careers.

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* ActorAllusion: Jackie and Max have a conversation about getting old and growing tired. Their actors, Pam Grier Creator/PamGrier and Robert Forster, had been big stars in the seventies but their stars had waned by the time they took this movie. Ironically, this movie revitalized their careers.careers.** During the sequence where Ordell is watching TV with Louis, the phone rings and he goes to the kitchen. In the fridge there's a picture of Creator/SamuelLJackson naked inside a bath tub. This pic is from his role in ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}.* ActorInspiredElement: It was Creator/SamuelLJackson's idea to give his character the long hair and the braided goatee.

* CastingGag: Sid Haig played villainous characters in a lot of blaxpoitation films opposite Pam Grier; in this film, he has a cameo as a judge. When filming the scene, Grier (who didn't know he had been cast) was so shocked to see him in a lawful role that she burst out laughing.

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* CastingGag: Sid Haig played villainous characters in a lot of blaxpoitation films opposite Pam Grier; Creator/PamGrier; in this film, he has a cameo as a judge. When filming the scene, Grier (who didn't know he had been cast) was so shocked to see him in a lawful role that she burst out laughing.laughing.* CreatorCameo: Creator/QuentinTarantino is the electronic voice on Jackie's answering machine.* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Tasha Yar]] appears uncredited as a public defender.* RaceLift: Jackie Brown was white in the book.* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/SylvesterStallone originally wanted to play Louis, while Creator/JohnTravolta was the first choice to play Ray Nicollete.** Creator/QuentinTarantino's list for Max Cherry was Creator/PaulNewman, Creator/GeneHackman, John Saxon and Robert Forster.** Christina Applegate was considered for the role of Melanie Ralston, but she was under contract for ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.

* CastingGag: Sid Haig played villainous characters in a lot of blaxpoitation films opposite Pam Grier; in this film, he has a cameo as a judge. When filming the scene, Grier (who didn't know he had been cast) was so shocked to see him in a lawful role that she burst out laughing.* HeyItsThatGuy: Film/FoxyBrown attempts to smuggle money under Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'s nose while dealing with [[Film/PulpFiction Jules]] -- who is porking [[Film/ArmyOfDarkness The Third Linda]]-and [[Film/TaxiDriver Travis Bickle]], and in the meantime, she falls for [[Film/TheBlackHole Dan Holland]]. Oh, and [[Film/RushHour James Carter]] [[spoiler:finally gets shot to death]].

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* CastingGag: Sid Haig played villainous characters in a lot of blaxpoitation films opposite Pam Grier; in this film, he has a cameo as a judge. When filming the scene, Grier (who didn't know he had been cast) was so shocked to see him in a lawful role that she burst out laughing.* HeyItsThatGuy: Film/FoxyBrown attempts to smuggle money under Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'s nose while dealing with [[Film/PulpFiction Jules]] -- who is porking [[Film/ArmyOfDarkness The Third Linda]]-and [[Film/TaxiDriver Travis Bickle]], and in the meantime, she falls for [[Film/TheBlackHole Dan Holland]]. Oh, and [[Film/RushHour James Carter]] [[spoiler:finally gets shot to death]].laughing.

* CastingGag: Sid Haig played villainous characters in a lot of blaxpoitation films opposite Pam Grier; in this film, he has a cameo as a judge. When filming the scene, Grier (who didn't know he had been cast) was so shocked to see him in a lawful role that she burst out laughing.

* HeyItsThatGuy: FoxyBrown attempts to smuggle money under Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'s nose while dealing with [[Film/PulpFiction Jules]] -- who is porking [[Film/ArmyOfDarkness The Third Linda]]-and [[Film/TaxiDriver Travis Bickle]], and in the meantime, she falls for [[Film/TheBlackHole Dan Holland]]. Oh, and [[Film/RushHour James Carter]] [[spoiler:finally gets shot to death]].

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* HeyItsThatGuy: FoxyBrown Film/FoxyBrown attempts to smuggle money under Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'s nose while dealing with [[Film/PulpFiction Jules]] -- who is porking [[Film/ArmyOfDarkness The Third Linda]]-and [[Film/TaxiDriver Travis Bickle]], and in the meantime, she falls for [[Film/TheBlackHole Dan Holland]]. Oh, and [[Film/RushHour James Carter]] [[spoiler:finally gets shot to death]].

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